Silas Goodman

Modulo Primus is the first movement of a larger future piece. I began composing it during my freshman year at Boston University (Spring 2016) under the supervision of Prof. John H. Wallace but only recently completed it. The piece is my first experimentation with atonal minimalist process music. Inspired by the works of Arvo Pärt and Nils Frahm, Modulo Primus’ repetitive homorhythmic melodic line is derived from the prime number series and organized into a slow progressive expansion, beginning at the piano’s center and ending at its periphery. With every repetition, the line’s inversion and register gradually mutate and expand to create a sense of familiarity yet divergence at the same time.